Re: What's Blue?
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- Subject: Re: What's Blue?
- From: S* M* <7*@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:48:44 -0700 (MST)
Amy Moseley Rupp wrote:
: I got my RHS colour swatches -- only thing I was disappointed in was I
: expected perhaps for them to have *names* along with the numbers -- like
: cerulean, or whatever.... people use "common colour names" like "common
: plant names" and there is a lot of confusion over that.... mostly you
: can tell if something is in the red, blue, yellow, purple, green, orange
: family and very little else. One person's "turquoise" is another's
: "aqua" and I accept that, but saying "92D" is not descriptive to those
: without the swatches.
I've probably had my charts for 20 years. The booklet that came with them bears
a copyright date of 1966, and does include translations. RHS 92D corresponds to
very pale wisteria blue, and that's the description I would have used instead of
"sky blue" if I had registered that particular seedling. I find the charts a
convenience, a supplement to rather than a substitute for descriptions put in
plain language.
BTW, "cerulean" is RHS 107A or B.
Sharon McAllister
7372.1745@compuserve.com
